Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

FOX 13's Linda Hurtado talked with award winning author Johnny Compton about his new short story collection. ‘We’re both just ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

Brandon Sanderson is constantly writing. He’s been working on the epic Stormlight Archive series since 2010, publishing the ...

In fact, the two creators had gathered each of these short stories in a new collection that had released in Japan last year. This included not only the new one-shot sequel, but some stories that had ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers. Despite ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...

TALES OF DYSFUNCTION: When it came to crafting characters for her debut collection, The Ballad of Cherrystoke and Other Stories, author Melanie McGee Bianchi says, “I wanted them to be punchy … and to ...

"I wonder why I'm risking so much just to have another person to apologize to," reflects the narrator of "Here Preached His Last"-- one of the stories in Gwen E. Kirby's new short story collection, ...